TOR is cool. TOR stands for The Onion Router. I assume Onion refers to the layers used to protect users and servers from censorship and surveillance, not dissimilar to the layers of an onion. TOR is the means of accessing everything outside of the surface web, particularly the spooky dark…
A long time ago (like 2 years) I had installed node exporter, prometheus, and grafana on my K3S cluster. This was useful to visualise resource usage in all my nodes, and served as a constant reminder of how underpowered the control plane was. With my new cluster having run for…
I used to run an Nginx reverse proxy outside of my Kubernetes cluster on a 4th Dell Optiplex acting as a monolith server. I still use it for all things I would not put on Kubernetes (eg Minecraft servers) but I want to reduce the impact of this single point…
Hello! I decided to try running cloudnativemauritius.com on Kubernetes. Since that's our whole thing, right? I expected this to be an easy 30 min job at most, and, as usual, it turned into much more. The website itself is a mix of Laravel and AlpineJS for the most part.…
Previously, I talked about the structure of my homelab, particularly with regards to the K3S cluster I was running on Pine64 SoPine compute modules, running impressive 1GHz quad-core ARM CPUs with 2GB DDR3. Unfortunately, that part of my homelab met a rather sudden dead-end a couple of weeks ago. I…